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Interview With Planet Hunter, Geoff Marcy

Posted by timothy on from the seeking-the-planet-of-the-pencils dept.

mindpixel writes "I was told as a child we'd never 'see' atoms or planets of other stars. Now with atomic force microscopes we 'see' atoms and with almost any telescope and statistics we 'see' planets. In the amazing online journal - Astrobiology - Planet-finding scientist, Geoff Marcy, describes just how it feels to find a new world."

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  1. 2 hours of tennis a day? by ObviousGuy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sometimes 4?

    What do astronomers get paid? For that kind of free time, what kind of pay cut would I have to take?

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